Biden-Harris HHS Can’t Account to Congress for Status of Thousands of Unaccompanied Minors

Biden-Harris HHS Can't Account to Congress for Status of Thousands of Unaccompanied Minors

The Biden-Harris administration hasn't completed a single refugee resettlement report since taking office.

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA - U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is pressing the Biden-Harris administration to provide overdue reports to Congress regarding its Unaccompanied Children program and other refugee resettlement programs. The current administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) hasn't completed a single annual report on its immigration-related expenditures, policies or statistics since taking office.

"President Biden and Vice President Harris have left Congress in the dark for the entirety of their administration and lost track of tens of thousands of vulnerable migrant children in the process," Grassley said. "How can President Biden or Border Czar Harris claim to be addressing this crisis when they can't, or won't, provide Congress statutorily required information on their efforts to do so? I've proposed reforms to address the glaring errors in this administration's Unaccompanied Children program. It's high time the Biden-Harris HHS let the sunshine in and show its work so that Congress can continue hammering out solutions based on the facts at hand."

Read Grassley's full letter HERE.

Background:

The Biden-Harris administration is failing to comply with Title 8, Section 1523 of the United States Code, which directs ORR to provide Congress annual reports on its refugee resettlement programs, including the location and status of unaccompanied migrant children in ORR's Unaccompanied Children program. Section 1523 additionally requires ORR report to Congress on:

• Refugee employment and labor force statistics;
• The geographic location of refugees;
• The activities, expenditures and policies of ORR;
• Descriptions of taxpayer-funded refugee assistance.

Grassley has exposed the administration for losing and endangering thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and is seeking to address the dangerous policies in its Unaccompanied Children program that allow kids to be exploited.

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